The Shakespeare Fabrications, or the Ms. Notes of the Perkins Folio Shown to Be of Recent Origin: With an Appendix on the Authorship of the Ireland Forgeries (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Shakespeare Fabrications, or the Ms. Notes of the Perkins Folio Shown to Be of Recent Origin: With an Appendix on the Authorship of the Ireland Forgeries

On November 24, 1856, I delivered a lecture to the Members of the Birmingham Midland Insti tute, which was fully reported in the Birmingham Journal of the following Saturday. I am there correctly reported as having said, that I held that the Perkins emendations were fabrications, and that in adopting them Mr. Collier had been a dupe. He had been duped in the case of the Bridgwater Manuscripts; and, though he was an honorable man, his judgment had been swamped, so that he could not tell genuine matter from spurious. In the discussion that followed the address, the talented author of the Poet's Garden of Pleasaunce is re ported to have said that he did not at all agree with him (the lecturer) respecting Mr. Collier's adoption of the Perkins emendations. He could see no object in it. The work was sold almost accidentally to Mr. Collier for 30s., and it was inconsistent to think it would have been worth any one's while to have gone through thirty-sevenl plays of Shakspeare, suggesting notes and emen dations, and to sell [the volume] for 30s. Of course the only answer to this argument, was one which I did not then feel justified in making.

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Excerpt from The Shakespeare Fabrications, or the Ms. Notes of the Perkins Folio Shown to Be of Recent Origin: With an Appendix on the Authorship of the Ireland Forgeries

In the following pages, I have anxiously endeavoured not to transgress the limits of legitimate literary criticism. On the one hand, I have simply stated facts within my own knowledge. Of these, some concern merely the genuineness or authenticity of the MS. notes in the "corrected folio of 1632," while others relate to Mr. Collier's acts or defaults in reference thereto. On the other hand, I have stated unequivocally the probable inferences from both classes of facts, without taking into consideration the weight of Mr. Collier's private character. With his friends that element may outweigh all other considerations.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.